I don't know much about Marco Rubio. But after reading this I'm ready to consign him to the ash heap of history:

Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio, rising star of the Republican right, on everyone's short list for VP, called for a unanimous vote, without debate, on a resolution directing President Obama to accept Georgia's plan for membership in NATO at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.

Rubio was pushing to have the U.S. Senate pressure Obama into fast-tracking Georgia into NATO, making Tbilisi an ally the United States would be obligated by treaty to go to war to defend.

Now it is impossible to believe a senator, not a year in office, dreamed this up himself. Some foreign agent of Scheunemann's ilk had to have had a role in drafting it.

And for whose benefit is Rubio pushing to have his own countrymen committed to fight for a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked war with Russia? Who cooked up this scheme to involve Americans in future wars in the Caucasus that are none of our business?

Read the whole thing and you'll see it was Rand Paul who stopped these Wilsonian internationalists in their tracks.

Can our politicians really be stupid enough to think it's worth fighting Russia over some scrap of real estate in which we have not the slightest interest?

They can indeed. I know plenty of politicians, but few smart ones. Most observe current events in light of past events. In this case they want to relive the Cold War. With the ridiculous "War On Terror," they kept talking about fighting it in terms of World War II.

Few seem to realize that nothing happening today has the slightest resemblance to either of those historical events.

Thanks to Pat for continually pointing this out.

But for pure stupidity, no one tops Newt. Watch below as he becomes the first neocon to propose reliving the Iraq War by fighting for "regime change" in Iran.